Kevin O'connell Was Furious About Vikings Offense's Penalty Woes Vs. Ravens

It’s not excessively communal that an discourtesy will perpetrate a mendacious commencement punishment connected their location field. The Vikings committed 8 specified penalties successful beforehand of their location crowd during nan nonaccomplishment to nan Ravens.

Oftentimes, mendacious commencement penalties are nan consequence of excessive crowd sound starring to miscommunication betwixt nan backmost and nan violative line. That excuse could not beryllium leaned upon aft Minnesota’s nonaccomplishment successful Sunday’s game.

Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell was irate astir nan excessive mendacious commencement penalties. Minnesota was nan first squad successful 16 years to beryllium flagged 8 aliases much times for mendacious starts during a location game, and O’Connell admitted he wasn’t judge what was causing nan plethora of mistakes.

“Whatever was going connected pinch nan cadence, aliases immoderate it whitethorn be, conscionable not acceptable successful immoderate way,” O’Connell said aft nan game.

J.J. McCarthy struggled successful nan game, successful what was conscionable his 2nd week backmost nether halfway pursuing his lengthy wounded absence. He completed little than 50% of his passes and threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions.

Those mendacious commencement 8 penalties costs nan Vikings’ discourtesy 40 yards. Minnesota costs itself a full of 102 yards by committing 13 penalties successful nan loss, whereas Baltimore was penalized conscionable 5 times for 62 yards. O’Connell knows that type of sloppy play simply won’t trim it successful nan NFL, and he made clear that having specified important disorder astatine nan statement of scrimmage was not gathering nan standards group by nan team.

There’s still plentifulness of increasing pains for McCarthy to spell through, but having his squad successful sync and successful tune pinch his cadence is simply a captious constituent of nan job, and an area he’ll request to amended successful quickly.

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